page_title: Allestree Hall
section_title: Sir Thomas William Evans
hierarchical_section_title: Allestree Hall / Sir Thomas William Evans
caption_attribution_description: English: Thomas William Evans, owner of Allestree Hall circa 1880
context_page_description: Allestree Hall is a 19th-century former country house situated in Allestree Park, Allestree, Derby. It is a Grade II* listed building but has been unoccupied for many years, and has been placed on the Heritage at Risk Register.
  The Mundy family owned the Manor of Allestree from 1516 until Francis Noel Clarke Mundy sold it to Thomas Evans in 1781. It was later the home of William Evans and of his son Sir Thomas William Evans, 1st Baronet. On his death in 1892 the latter bequeathed the estate to his brother in law William Gisborne.
  The area known as Allestree Park was enclosed in about 1818. The house begun by Bache Thornhill was completed by John Giradot with three storeys and five bays, the central three bowed with an ionic columned porch.
  A large part of the estate was sold for housing development in 1928. The neglected house now stands in a 300-acre wooded parkland with lake, grasslands and golf course, owned by Derby City Council. Allestree Park is designated as a Local Nature Reserve.
context_section_description: Thomas William Evans was born in 1821 at Allestree Hall. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. After he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1846 he married his first cousin Mary Gisborne, the daughter of Thomas John Gisborne of Holme Hall near Bakewell. The couple had no children.
  He inherited his father's fortune in 1856. He became a parliamentarian in 1857 and held this position for many years. He was also very prominent in local politics being the first Chairman of the Derbyshire County Council which was a position he held until his death. He was the Mayor of Derby in 1869 and was made a baronet in 1887.
  He died at Allestree Hall in 1892 and as he had no children he left the Hall to his brother-in-law William Gisborne.
caption: Sir Thomas William Evans.
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